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From sunset March 19th – sunset March 20th people were asked to spend 24 hours without using their emails, iPhone, texting, surfing the net, or tweeting one another. This was named the ‘National Day of Unplugging’.
A NYC based Jewish think tank of artists, known as Reboot, made up of writers, journalists and filmmakers, who operate in the technology and media sector and are the forefront of electronic communication, asked for stressed, hyper-connected and frequently frantic people to execute a National Day of Unplugging, thus observing a ‘Technological Sabbath’.
Millions have become globally united, as technology provides more and more ways for people to be connected through the invisible link of the Internet. This is fast making the 21st Century the century of ‘connectivity’
An AOL study reveaked that 59%of PDA users check e-mails every time a new message alert arrives and 83% check their e-mails every day, even while on holiday. It is therefore, generally recognized, that technology has good, bad sides, as well as unintended consequences.
Sabbath Manifesto creator Dan Rollman and founder of the Universal World Record Database (URDB), which collects world records says “As people fall deeper into the digital world, their attention spans are evaporating”
The question is being raised asking if people also have the ability to become ‘unplugged’
• Avoiding technology
• Avoiding commerce
• Getting outside
• Connecting with loved ones
• Nurturing your health
• Drinking wine
• Lighting candles
• Giving back
• Eating bread
• Finding silence
It was agreed that the advent of the telephone was a huge invasion on privacy, but it pales to insignificance when compared to the latest advances in technology. People are capable of remaining in constant and instant contact with each other.
Many walk around with earphones, hiding from the real world. They panic when phone, or Internet reception is lost, constantly tweet updates, or surf the web. They need to rethink how much modern technology is the controlling factor of their lives. This is a wake-up call to how insidious electronic communication is and how harmful can be to personal relationships, the ability to focus and the ability to simply enjoy the world around us.
Reboot’s grap phrase is ‘And on the Sabbath the iPhones shall rest’.
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